Allegory Studies

This book brings together some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of scholars from a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences

Vladimir Brljak is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

"Introduction: Allegory Past and Present" Vladimir Brljak Chapter 1 "Invoking the Other: Allegory in Theory, from Demetrius to de Man" Michael Silk Chapter 2 "The Failures of Allegory and the Allegory of Failure: Dislocation, Time and Subjectivity, c.1230-1600" Marco Nievergelt Chapter 3 Painted Allegory's Fortunes in Seventh-Century Antwerp Lisa Rosenthal Chapter 4 "Stoics, Origen, Bacon: On the Interconnections of Physics and Allegory" Kristen Poole Chapter 5 "Allegory, Ambiguity, Accommodation" Anthony Ossa-Richardson Chapter 6 "'Consigned to a Florida for tropes': Theorizing Enlightenment Allegory" Jason J. Gulya Chapter 7 "Late Modernist Allegory and the Psychedelic Experience" Maria Cichosz Chapter 8 "Allegory and the Work of Aboriginal Dreaming/Law/Lore" Brenda Machosky Chapter 9 "Allegory and Bodily Imagination" Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Lacey Okonski "Afterword: The Future of Allegory" Glenn W. Most